O Liberty, how many crimes are committed in thy name!
Madame Roland
Tag: Quote of the Day
28FEB2026 – Quote of the Day
Then, never less alone than when alone.
Those that he loved so long and sees no more,
Loved and still loves,—not dead, but gone before,—
He gathers round him.
Samuel Rogers
27FEB2026 – Quote of the Day
Go! you may call it madness, folly;
You shall not chase my gloom away!
There’s such a charm in melancholy
I would not if I could be gay.
Samuel Rogers
26FEB2026 – Quote of the Day
To vanish in the chinks that Time has made.
Samuel Rogers
25FEB2026 – Quote of the Day
That very law which moulds a tear
And bids it trickle from its source,—
That law preserves the earth a sphere,
And guides the planets in their course.
Samuel Rogers
24FEB2026 – Quote of the Day
Preserving your health by too strict a diet is a tedious illness.
François de La Rochefoucauld
23FEB2026 – Quote of the Day
Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer provide bad examples.
François de La Rochefoucauld
22FEB2026 – Quote of the Day
As we age, we become more foolish and wiser.
François de La Rochefoucauld
21FEB2026 – Quote of the Day
It is harder to hide the feelings we have than to feign the ones we do not have.
François de La Rochefoucauld
20FEB2026 – Quote of the Day
Absence extinguishes the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.
François de La Rochefoucauld